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Effects of Rich and Lean Treatment Contexts on Renewal
(2017-07)Relapse of problem behavior following behavioral intervention can occur for many reasons, including a change in setting after treatment. Reappearance of a previously extinguished behavior due to a context change is termed ... -
Novel Hyperspectral Imagery and Platforms for Shallow Water Environments
(2017-07)Hyperspectral measurements of the water surface in urban coastal waters are presented. Oblique bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) imagery was acquired of coastal shallow waters within the watershed of the Indian ... -
The Effect of Safety Coaching on the Accuracy of Safety Observations and Feedback
(2017-07)Behavior-based safety (BBS) is an effective approach to decreasing workplace incidents and injuries. BBS typically consists of a peer observation and data collection process, and a feedback process. Accurate observations ... -
The Roles of Diffusion and Bulk Flow in Neural Function and Alzheimer's Disease
(2017-07)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting close to 5.1 million Americans and its incidence is expected to rise with the higher number of people in the aging population. A hallmark of the disease ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Motivations: How Audiences Respond to a Company's Motivations Post-Crisis
(2017-07)With the rise of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, researchers have identified various motivations behind CSR initiatives. These motivations can assist researchers in understanding company behaviors and ... -
Emotional Display Rule Conflict in Student Affairs and Services Administrators
(2017-07)This study examines a proposed model in which display rule conflict occurs when employees’ personal emotional display rule goals or values (operationalized as student customer orientation and individual-level power ... -
Feedback and Effort: A Translational Study
(2017-07)The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an arrangement to establish feedback as more preferred when delivered after higher effort responding rather than lower effort responding. The study took place in the ... -
Consumers’ Willingness to Fly in Augmented Cognition Equipped Aircraft
(2017-07)Current advancements in the field of Augmented Cognition have garnered attention from the aviation industry. Equipping flight management systems with Augmented Cognition is a possibility in the near future as the result ... -
Examination of the Impact of Condensed Biofeedback Training on Acute Stress Responses
(2017-07-13)The objective of this study was to measure the effects of a condensed 90 minute Biofeedback Training (BFT) method on stress response and decision making performance under stress. Forty one novice male participants ... -
Improving Crash Safety of Jet Dragsters Through Modeling and Analysis
(2017-07)The objective of this thesis was to analyze how additional foam implementation in a jet dragster driver’s compartment can improve driver safety in the case of an accident. This analysis was divided into two sections: a ... -
An Integrated Model of Attitude Theory and Applicant Faking Behavior
(2017-07)Applicant faking behavior (AFB) on personality measures has been a longstanding challenge for both researchers and practitioners. Applicant faking behavior is widely defined as a deceptive act that is intended to create ... -
GEOMETRY DRIVEN PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR SHAPE MATCHING, CLASSIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL
(2017-07)Emulating human vision in a computational framework—known as computer vision—is one of the next major research areas being pursued; this emulation of vision can be viewed from a Systems Engineering perspective. The goal ... -
The Impact of a Millennial Business Leader’s Emotional Intelligence on Turnover in the Multigenerational Sales Occupational Field
(2017-07)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore if emotional intelligence has an impact on a millennial leader’s efforts to reduce turnover in the multigenerational sales occupational field. Ben Peterson, CEO ... -
Using Discrimination Training to Establish Conditioned Reinforcers: A Replication and Test of Maintenance
(2017-07)A stimulus becomes a conditioned reinforcer when it acquires reinforcing properties by virtue of being paired with a primary reinforcer. Researchers have evaluated different methods to condition reinforcers for children ... -
Shared Leadership: Enactment, Perception, and the Role of Power Distance
(2017-07)Interest in shared leadership stems from the growing evidence that adopting this approach to team management results in enhanced team performance, team effectiveness, and team satisfaction. However, to fully realize the ... -
The Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Rumor and Performance during an Analogue Task
(2017-07)Feedback is the most commonly used intervention in Organizational Behavior Management (OBM). Recent OBM research has examined both the effects of inaccurate feedback (FB) on performance as well as rumors created due to ... -
Assessing the Combined Effects of Resurgence and Renewal
(2017-07)Resurgence and renewal are laboratory models of treatment relapse revealing the effects of treatment integrity errors and context change on problem behavior eliminated through treatment with differential reinforcement ... -
How Shared Leadership Improves Team Performance: Exploring the Role of Team Knowledge and Team Learning
(2016-08)Team-structured work is prevalent in organizations and the effectiveness of teams greatly depends on the leadership enacted. Ample studies have supported the utility of a more fluid team structure where leadership is the ... -
Feedback Environment Intervention: Changing the performance management paradigm from systems to people
(2017-07)For years, empirical research has supported the claims that an organization’s feedback environment is related to numerous beneficial outcomes for employees and organizations. While we have a valid and reliable way to ... -
Tuning Micro-Electro-Mechanical Resonators for Maximum Dynamic Range
(2017-07)This research seeks to improve the linear dynamic range (LDR) of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) resonators, which are commonly used in sensing and timing applications. We address specifically the need for devices ...